Is Three Sisters available for purchase?

Three Sisters has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of Three Sisters?

Three Sisters (2023) measures 210 × 160 cm and was created in Acrylic and oil stick on canvas (based on a sketch from Poet Marcelino Fernandez Suarez).

How can I acquire a painting by Claus Bertermann?

Works by Claus Bertermann are available directly from the studio, through partner galleries, and via 1stDibs. Contact the studio via the form at bertermann.art/contact.

Does Claus Bertermann have a gallery representative or exclusive agent?

No. Claus Bertermann works as an independent artist without exclusive gallery representation, dealers, or agents. Works are acquired directly from the studio at bertermann.art, through non-exclusive gallery partnerships, and at international auction houses.

What is Three Sisters about?

Three Sisters is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann whose title is a convergence point for multiple cultural traditions. Anton Chekhov's 1901 play Tri Sestry is one of the great works of modern drama — a play about longing, frustration, and the gap between desire and reality, in which three sisters spend four acts wanting to go to Moscow and never going. The Three Fates of Greek mythology (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos) spin, measure, and cut the thread of human life — a triad of female figures who control destiny. The Three Sisters of Indigenous American agricultural tradition (corn, beans, and squash) are planted together in a symbiotic system that sustains all three. All three of these references share something: a structure of interdependence, of three elements that define and sustain each other, of completeness achieved through plurality rather than singularity. Bertermann's Three Sisters brings these multiple registers into a single figurative canvas. Whether the three figures are sisters in the biographical sense, in the Chekhovian sense (longing together), in the mythological sense (controlling destiny), or in the agricultural sense (sustaining each other) is for the viewer to determine. The painting provides the figures; the title provides the resonances.

Is Three Sisters AI-generated?

No. Three Sisters is a hand-painted original created entirely by Claus Bertermann — Acrylic and oil stick on canvas (based on a sketch from Poet Marcelino Fernandez Suarez). All works by Claus Bertermann are made by hand. In a time when AI-generated imagery is increasingly common, every Bertermann painting is a unique physical object, never digitally produced.

Three Sisters | Figurative Works

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Three Sisters (2023), 210 x 160 cm

210 × 160 cm — 83 × 63 in

Three Sisters, 2023 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

Three Sisters, 2023, 210 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann